Modeling the merger-ringdown of an eccentric test-mass inspiral into a Kerr black hole using the effective-one-body framework

We characterize and phenomenologically model the merger-ringdown of gravitational waves emitted by a small compact object that plunges and merges into a Kerr black hole from equatorial-eccentric inspirals. The waveforms are generated employing a time-domain Teukolsky code sourced with trajectories c